Police DUI checkpoints concentrated on West Side

Tribune analysis reveals black neighborhoods subject to DUI checkpoints much more often than white areas, where many of the city’s DUI’s occur

By Michael Romain

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The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is still concentrating its roadside sobriety checkpoints in predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods, a recent Chicago Tribune analysis reveals. The Tribune’s new report, published September 11, comes several months after a May Tribune analysis demonstrated the same disparity. 

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